When The Curse of Frankenstein came out in 1957, it made an international star of Peter Cushing in the role of Baron Victor Frankenstein. "Cushing is the new Karloff," crowed The New York Daily News when this worthy sequel came out the next year. Sentenced to die by guillotine because of murders committed by his first creation, the Baron executes an ingenious escape and begins to pass as Dr. Victor Stein. By day, he attends to the German elite, while at night he uses his fees to subsidize a free clinic. Before long he schemes to transplant the brain of his faithful hunchback Karl (Oscar Quitak) into the brain of a normal, healthy man (Michael Gwynn).